Salem didn't know that many of the soldiers in the city of Garo were fake, and they couldn't fight on the battlefield at all, and the Tocharian and Turkic warriors had limited combat effectiveness, and their individual combat effectiveness was okay, but when combined, they became a rabble. Otherwise, it will not let the Tubo people and the Tang Dynasty people fight as much as they want.

As for the tens of thousands of Tang Dynasty recruits, it can only be said that they can barely ride horses, and it is even more problematic to really fight. He only saw the number of people, and like Li Wei, he didn't know much about the combat effectiveness of the two sides, but he heard that the Tang Dynasty people were very strong. Several battles on the Wuhu River have also proved this. What does it mean for hundreds of thousands of Tang Dynasty troops to attack the city of Gaburo? The main direction of attack.

A few transfers were made.

So many troops are stationed here, to eat and drink. Every day a lot of supplies need to be sent to the rear. So they took advantage of the comings and goings of people to draw out the elite troops. A total of 25,000 people were transferred, and in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from discovering them, a large number of Persian soldiers were transferred from the rear to replace these 25,000 troops unknowingly.

Then march to Barihe.

This is also a very famous city, divided into the upper city and the lower city, the upper city is the highland walled city, the lower city is wide, covers an area of more than four square kilometers, the circumference of the whole city reaches more than ten miles. It is less than 50 square kilometers of Luoyang City, less than 60 square kilometers of Moufu City (60 square kilometers of Moufu City includes the outer city, which is slightly smaller than Luoyang City in general), and less than 80 square kilometers of Chang'an. But it is also the most important city of the Wuhu River.

In the past, it was once the capital of Great Xia, but the name was not called Barihei, but Bhaktra. When the Persians expanded, they occupied the place and renamed it Barikhe. It is located on the east-west transportation artery, and the business is prosperous. Later, when the Western Turks expanded, the Tiemen Wuhu River was used to divide the boundary with the Persians, as the territory of Lower Tochar, which was still controlled by the Persians, and was also one of the easternmost cities in Persia. Persia fell into the hands of Tochar. It was also renamed Bobo City, because the Tang Dynasty set up a Yueshi Prefecture here, also known as Lanshi City (the Han history and the history of the Great Food are inconsistent, there is no clear evidence, but it is impossible for Lanshi Prefecture to give up such a large city and rebuild a new city as the state capital. Tocharian is not developed like this, there are many dense city options, Lao Wu thinks that the two cities are one city, and the names are different).

This march was similar to the route of Qudibo's first march decades later. Qudibo was from the city of Moufu to the east, but not to Barihe, where some of Tocharian troops were stationed. Changed to the city of Tarihan between Barikhe and Melvirud. But Dehgan of Barihei actually came to surrender and greet him because he was afraid. Greeted by King Shihanna, he crossed the Wuhu River and launched an attack on Yuman and Aharon. The number of troops was small and did not succeed. When he returned, he was reprimanded by his boss, Hazaghi. But this campaign allowed Qu Dibo to accumulate experience and lay the foundation for a larger attack later.

The routes are similar, but the situation is different.

Barry Black is now in the hands of the Great Cannibal, so he goes straight to Barryhei.

There is a road from Barihe, which leads to Gaburo. Salem played a trick and didn't read China's military books and tactics, but the marching principle was the same. The city is not far from Barihe, at this time there are more than 8,000 soldiers in Barihetun, and it is very difficult to attack the city. However, more than 20,000 elite troops were supported, and at this time, all the troops of the city of Binding went south to the city of Garo, which was almost half empty. It's not very difficult.

But not really to attack.

The loss of the Drinking City will not jeopardize Tocharo's safety. However, the city was inhabited by the Persian prince Nishi, as well as a large amount of supplies from the Tang Dynasty army. Even after taking the Bound City, you can launch an attack on the city of Achu to the east, and shake the rear of Tocharo. Let the Tang Dynasty army lose its back road and become a lone army. The combat effectiveness is there, but if you lose the rear, you will lose the source of food and grass. Salem was very confident that the city of Garo would be able to hold on for three months and two months.

Without food and grass, so many armies will collapse. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty army must divide its troops to rescue. It was this idea of rescuing the Tang army that was fighting. Feint to attack the city and ambush the Tang Dynasty reinforcements who arrived halfway. The Tang Dynasty army was forced to retreat with all its troops. Then take the opportunity to mobilize troops and attack from all sides. That is, the plan to save Zhao from Wei Wei.

Draining this part of the soldiers, Salem counted the strength of both sides in the middle tent.

He still had nearly 80,000 troops on the south bank. Although there are not many elite troops, most of them are mainly Persians. The enemy's real elite troops are only the real 30,000 or 40,000 Tang troops, hundreds of thousands of new immigrants, all of whom have arrived at the Shaye River, and there are many disgruntled Turkic tribes around, so an army must be left just in case. The main direction of attack is the line from Gabro to Jiling City, how many elite troops can be left by the Wuhu River? Could it be that the soldiers of the countries in the river have become elite soldiers after training? The terrain is separated by the Wuhu River, and although the bridgehead of Guazi Mountain is very annoying, he has built a thick defense line around Guazi Mountain. Even if the Tang Dynasty army crossed the Wuhu River, this line of defense tightly nailed the Tang army to Guaegg Mountain.

Either from other places, the Tang Dynasty people have ships in their hands, and this is where they made mistakes. I regret it now when I think about it. At that time, he was negligent, but he would not put the eggs in a basket, divide half of the boats, transfer them to other areas to patrol, escape from the fire, and continue to maintain his advantage on the river. Shengsheng gave up this great natural trench.

There are more and more boats, and after visual inspection, they can carry nearly 10,000 people almost at one time. But when you put the soldiers on the boats, or the other four battalions move, your own men can't see them? With the transfer is. It's a big deal to stay up for more than ten days, and when the summer wheat is harvested, I can take the initiative to leave the Wuhu River to you.

Still very passive, but mainly the wheat dragged him back. It didn't take long for the people to harvest before the harvest, so they made such a passive arrangement.

But unexpectedly, a group of guests unexpectedly came.

Li Wei's march into Central Asia had many intentions. In the long run, the idea of destroying all Western civilization is a bit extreme and may not come to fruition. Just like the folk rumors in which Li Chunfeng said that Wu Zetian messed up the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin asked him to speak out and kill Wu Zetian. Li Chunfeng said that he could not be killed, this was the will of heaven, if he was killed, he would be a young man again, and the descendants of the Tang family would be harmed. It's just folk rumors, so there are so many Wu Zetian who can emerge? Hugh said that it was Wu Zetian, that is, Lu Pheasant, Wang Zhengjun, Deng Sui, Xiao Sui, Feng Shi, Liu E, Cixi, how many years has there been one in history?

But the future is not very easy to say, as Li Wei wishes, let the barbarians control the West, it may not be that there will be no civilized countries, after all, Western civilization has laid a solid foundation.

But there are several roles that can be served. For example, broadening the eyes of the world, with Central Asia as a springboard, the Central Plains realized that there were so many wonderful worlds outside, so many systems and civilizations, and they would not rest on their laurels and be blindly arrogant. Using Central Asia as a springboard, the Central Plains civilization was forcibly promoted. This is also achievable, after all, the current Central Plains civilization leads the whole world. A few decades later, the real seizure of the territory of Central Asia can be advanced or retreated. As long as this battle defeats the Great Eclipse, it can also be achieved.

There was a stable Central Asia, which was conducive to consolidating the rule of the Western Regions, and a few breads were copied by the Tibetans. Personally, he also has to deliberately stay outside for a period of time so that he can implement Pei Xingjian's plan. It is too dangerous to stay in Luoyang at this time.

But there are disadvantages, retreat to the green ridge, with this natural barrier shelter, it is enough to protect yourself. Further, starting from the river, especially into Khorasan, was the land of the four wars. It's okay to get in, but it's hard to get out. Therefore, this time Li Wei repeatedly invited the Byzantines to participate in the war, as long as they participated in the war, he could stop in Khorasan, which was enough to withdraw.

As far as Tibet is concerned, the most clever strategy is to make Li Wei unable to withdraw and fall into this quagmire and unable to extricate himself. However, there is no one in this world who has the vision to understand the direction of world civilization so clearly. If you don't understand, you don't understand Li Wei's intentions.

So on the Qinling saw one.

The return of the Tang emperors to Central Asia was to continue the policies of the previous Tang Dynasty. This policy not only opened up the territory for the Tang Dynasty, but also surrounded the Tubo people from the southwest to the southeast. Either only the tall snowy mountains in the south lead to Tianzhu. It is the west that is the enemy of the Great Eclipse, but if you shrink back one step, you can attack Tubo in several directions. There was no room for expansion in Tibet. Even as long as the cooperation is good, checkpoints are set up in several directions at the same time to cut off the trade of the Tibetans, and the Tibetans may collapse.

More than a decade ago, the Tibetan Dynasty did not allow the Tang Dynasty to do this. More than ten years later, the Tang Dynasty was not allowed to do so.

So he sent an envoy to the Wuhu River.

Seeing Salem, Salem was also overjoyed and politely welcomed several of them into the big tent.

Sitting down, the Tibetan man said directly: "Your Excellency, you are preparing too hastily. ”

"I didn't expect that either."

"How could you not have imagined? Ashina Chebo's small rebellion, can it be worth the Tang Dynasty emperor personally leading a large army to quell the rebellion? ”

Salem was silent. Not only did he not expect it, but he didn't even pay attention to the riots in the Western Turks. If it weren't for the Tang Dynasty taking the initiative to attack, he would still not have heard of anything that happened in the Western Regions. But suddenly he remembered and said, "Why didn't you Tubo people remind me? ”

"Your Excellency, how far is the city from the river?" This is foolish, from the very beginning Li Wei led the army to the Western Regions, and the Qinling followed up on this news. With the current national strength of Tubo, it can no longer launch hundreds of thousands of troops to fight as it did a few years ago, and can only exchange small and large in exchange for the greatest benefits.

The Tibetan people said, "Even if you didn't think of it at first, why didn't you think of it later?" ”

"I thought that if it was the immigration, and the integration of the armies of the Transoline and Tocharian regions to increase their combat effectiveness, the Tang people would retreat. After all, it is far away from the Tang Dynasty, and the Western Regions are in turmoil from time to time, and there are rivers and Tocharo. ”

"Just immigrants? When did the Tang emperors leave their Central Plains? April. At that time, Guanzhong was only the beginning of the disaster, and later the disaster deepened, so that a large number of people were hopeless and moved to the Western Regions. From the beginning, people were ready to fight you for the idea of eating big. ”

"Isn't the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty farther away from us? What ability do I have to find out the news of the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty? "Salem is a little angry, you TMD a little messenger, what qualifications do you have to teach me? He lowered his face and said, "You Tubo sent you, what is the purpose, just say it." ”

"Dragging the Tang Army, we will personally send troops to the Western Regions. Not only that, the year before last, Ge Lulu took in Ashina Wenbo, and they were inextricably linked to the newly divided pharyngeal noodle people of the Tang Dynasty emperor. As long as you lead the Tang Dynasty army one step deeper, you can plan them to attack Broken Leaf when the forces of Broken Leaf City are empty. Not only does Shattered Leaf City have some wealth, but the hundreds of thousands of recent immigrants outside the city don't have any combat power, which is a huge wealth. Then the Tang Dynasty will not only lose Hezhong, but also possibly the Western Regions. ”

"Who is Ashina Wenbo?"

The Tibetan envoy opened his mouth, you don't even know who Ashina Gu Lu is, right?

I really don't know, it's too far away, just like if Li Wei hadn't sent a large number of scouts, would he have known the famous general Oge Bai who was fighting in the North African battlefield?

The Tibetan envoy had no choice but to explain to him about the riots in the Eastern Turks of the Tang Dynasty in recent years. It even explained the contradiction between the emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the empress dowager. Salem clapped his hands and said, "It turns out that there are so many things in the Tang Dynasty." ”

"Yes, but it's just a rare opportunity for you to eat. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty was not in good health, and he didn't have long to live. Once this new emperor is in full control, he will concentrate all the forces of the Tang Dynasty against you Dashi. Why are you having such a hard time? The real Tang army was only twenty or thirty thousand people. What would it be like if an army of 200,300,000 troops was dispatched? At that time, even if you ate a lot of power and poured out the country, you were not an opponent of the Tang Dynasty. Besides, you have a strong enemy in the West. ”

Seeing that Salem did not know much about the domestic affairs of the Tang Dynasty, he was intimidated again.

"It's the Byzantines. Are you saying let's retreat and lead the Tang Dynasty to Khorasan to fight against Sestan? ”

"Exactly."

"The winter wheat is ripe, I think how about waiting for it to be cut up before moving the army back?" Since the war, Salem has been restrained and somewhat frustrated, otherwise he would not have asked the Tibetans.

Several envoys came from afar, and it was only after listening to the words of the Qin Ling that they spoke in a proper manner. Where do they themselves have any military talent, they looked at the Wuhu River, and they also thought that this strategy was the best policy. Once the Tang Dynasty army lost its grain and grass, the deeper the army entered, the more dangerous it became. Big cannibals are not vegetarians either.

But Salem also didn't trust the Tang Dynasty and watched as he harvested the grain and sent it to the city. He sent scouts to investigate, and the scouts came back to report, but there were no troops in the rear. This made Salem very puzzled, could it be that the Tang Dynasty really regarded these tens of thousands of troops as feints? （